tear down

Example Sentences

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Grimes’ team added a front porch to the house’s facade, also tearing down interior walls to allow director of photography Seamus McGarvey to easily film inside.

From Los Angeles Times

In a perfect world, we’d tear down the maze we’ve added to for a century and replace it with a central clearinghouse for short-term government support, able to interact efficiently with states.

From The Wall Street Journal

Chesterton famously warned, it is folly to tear down a fence before discovering why it was built.

From The Wall Street Journal

For one thing, Sotheby’s will need to tear down five walls in its biggest gallery the night before its inaugural sale on Tuesday just to make enough room for bidders to sit.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beyond the immediate ends to projects, the study said that cuts would have knock-on effects by tearing down institutional capacities "painstakingly built over decades of international cooperation."

From Barron's